 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Product Description
Product Description
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets.
Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image. Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose. The result is a novel that is as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Lilac in the sun is the first impression of this book. Like it is in the painting of Monet. The approach of the smell moves the senses. It reveals the art in this novel. The next look in the studio is the presence of what we can expect next. Illumination is the word for all this. The friendship between Basil Hallward, Dorian Gray and Lord Henry start here. You can see it in the picture of Dorian. It is a symbol for it. Dorian sees his picture and on the next moment he sees that he never be the same in the years to come. This conversation is a gloomy moment for him. The youth is represented in the picture. The novel is a reflection between the beauty of art and youth. The liaison of Dorian with the actress Syble Vane is the beginning of the decline. After her suicide the picture gets older. All of his sins are reflected in the picture until he kills Basil. The façade of beauty can never delude his crime. So he decided to kill himself. It is his try to take the picture in the right light. The transitoriness is the best in life you have. Everything fades in life. You must hang on them. Everything has its time in the right moment. Youth is a fading thing. You can not hold it. Dorian is the symbol of this illusion.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
